Thursday, October 2, 2008

Welcome Back Fourth Grade! -- Week One

In fourth grade the students pull together what they have learned about rhythm and melody in previous grades and begin to compose songs.

This week their assignment is to develop a song lyric that is 4 lines long. Each line must contain seven syllables. And the first two lines and last two must rhyme. The lyrics will then be added to an existing well known melody.

We'll be performing a few of their songs next week. The results are always entertaining.